Sojo is a landmark chinese restaurant in Oxford. Highly recommeneded by our next gen we decided to give it a try at lunch on a weekday.
The menu briefs us on the entrepreneur behind the chain. Hats off to the gentleman from Hong Kong who gave Oxford three Chinese restaurants from the 1970s onwards.
The ambience and decor are as expected. However what catches ones eye is the request on the menu urging patrons to go beyond the regular stirfry or sweet n sour.
We tried the sweet corn chicken soup, hot and sour soup, the dim sum set for one, salt and pepper chicken wings, soft noodles and kung bo prawns. The dim sum set is large and quite filling especially the sticky rice dumplings. The noodles and the kung bo prawns were delicious.
The tables started filling up around us soon. It is decidedly most popular.
Attentive service.
One of the biggest difficulties of moving from Melbourne to Oxford has been the relative lack of good Chinese food in Oxford. Thankfully, Sojo does a decent job of providing authentic, homely Chinese cooking. We had the tomato and egg, and the Sojo black bean tofu, and both were tasty, without being overpoweringly flavoured (as can often happen at lesser Chinese restaurants). The jasmine rice was a little bit gloopy in texture and could have been fluffier. Staff were friendly and the restaurant environment was fine, although it did get quite loud at times because of a group down one end of the restaurant.
It's The Veggie Option
+4
The menu at Sojo is HUGE. I mean really, really huge. This is always a bit of a concern for the veggie; I wasn’t particularly looking forward to having to rifle through pages and pages of dishes in order to try and pick out the veggie options. Once again, however, Sojo subverted my expectations. Helpfully, Sojo have a separate vegetarian menu on to which they have collated all the veggie dishes from the main menu. This is far beyond the usual three/four options offered on vegetarian menus; there are eight starters and twenty-two – yes, you heard me, twenty-two – main courses available. I honestly don’t think I can remember a time in my life where I have had that much choice in a non-vegetarian restaurant.
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